According to the ruling, Youssef provided his father $30,000 from the marital estate in a real estate transaction in Tilton. Later, Youssef received $35,000 that he said was a loan from his father for the purchase of a Laconia property.

The judge said Youssef created "a sleight of hand" by receiving a disputed $35,000 loan from his father as a way of recouping the previous $30,000 he presented his father for the earlier Tilton real estate deal.

"The court finds that the fraud was perpetrated not in the transfer of the $30,000 for the Tilton real estate transaction but in the '$35,000' 'personal loan' for the purchase of the Union Avenue property, which was hidden from the Respondent (Mrs. Youssef)," the judge wrote.